Principles of Editing: Continuity Editing
Continuity editing is the most common style of film editing and basically the essential of film. The footage is edited together to create a seamless edit and the edit is usually so well done that the viewer does not even recognise that there is an edit. The footage has to flow well because if the edit adds more time then needed it shows discontinuity and spoils the flow of the edit. The footage would also not edit well if you have the discontinuity of the action on screen. For example, if a girl picks up a can of coke in her left hand in shot, in shot two she should still have the can in her left hand otherwise continuity is broken. The edit should flow so well that it is invisible. There are plenty of examples of continuity editing but an example I have found is in the film "A Single Man". Carlos is smoking a cigarette, which is in his right hand, and it stays in his right hand through out the scene.
Sometimes even the greatest film makers make errors while filming which film editors can not even fix. Continuity mistakes have become a popular thing to spot with film buffs, with IMDB having a section called "goofs" which points out all of the continuity mistakes in TV and Film. BBC3 also created a special one off show about the greatest film errors, which involved continuity mistakes. Here is an example of continuity errors in "Stars Wars" which fans have spotted.
Continuity editing is the most common style of film editing and basically the essential of film. The footage is edited together to create a seamless edit and the edit is usually so well done that the viewer does not even recognise that there is an edit. The footage has to flow well because if the edit adds more time then needed it shows discontinuity and spoils the flow of the edit. The footage would also not edit well if you have the discontinuity of the action on screen. For example, if a girl picks up a can of coke in her left hand in shot, in shot two she should still have the can in her left hand otherwise continuity is broken. The edit should flow so well that it is invisible. There are plenty of examples of continuity editing but an example I have found is in the film "A Single Man". Carlos is smoking a cigarette, which is in his right hand, and it stays in his right hand through out the scene.
Sometimes even the greatest film makers make errors while filming which film editors can not even fix. Continuity mistakes have become a popular thing to spot with film buffs, with IMDB having a section called "goofs" which points out all of the continuity mistakes in TV and Film. BBC3 also created a special one off show about the greatest film errors, which involved continuity mistakes. Here is an example of continuity errors in "Stars Wars" which fans have spotted.
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